A humble woman prays

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus!

Who doesn’t believe in Santa? Oh My!

First, let’s see the “facts” on Santa Claus or his other name Saint Nick. Read this on the history of the Jolly man himself!

So back to the question that all children eventually ask their parents or grandparents, “Is there really a Santa Claus?”

The official answer to this question is shared by Wikipedia after publication in The Sun newspaper.

In 1897, Philip O’Hanlon, a surgeon, was asked by his eight-year-old daughter, Virginia O’Hanlon, whether Santa Claus existed. His answer did not convince her, and Virginia decided to pose the question to The Sun.^[7] Sources conflict over whether her father suggested writing the letter,^[8] or she elected to on her own.^[7] In her letter Virginia wrote that her father had told her “If you see it in The Sun it’s so.”^[8] O’Hanlon later told The Sun that her father thought the newspaper would be “too busy” to respond to her question and had said to “[w]rite if you want to,” but to not be disappointed if she got no response.^[9] After sending the letter she looked for a response “day after day”.^[9] O’Hanlon later said that she had waited for an answer to her letter for long enough that she forgot about it. Campbell theorizes the letter was sent shortly after O’Hanlon’s birthday in July and was “overlooked or misplaced” for a time.^[10][a]

The Sun‘s editor-in-chief, Edward Page Mitchell, eventually gave the letter to Francis Church.^[14] Mitchell reported that Church, who was initially reluctant to write a response, produced it “in a short time”^[1] during a single afternoon.^[15] Church’s response was 416 words long^[16] and was anonymously^[17] published in The Sun on September 21, 1897,^[18] shortly after the beginning of the school year in New York City.^[19] The editorial appeared in the paper’s third and last column of editorials that day, positioned below discussions of an election law in Connecticut, a newly invented chainless bicycle, and “British Ships in American Waters”.^[18]

Church was not disclosed as the editorial’s author until after his 1906 death.

Here is the official answer children!

Does one official answer not satisfy your doubt? Here is another answer that was proven in a court of law and the recording is shared in the official documentary (?) “A Miracle on 34th Street.”

The question that all parents dread hearing “Is there a Santa?”, now has officially been answered twice, parents!

Is there a 3rd official answer to this all important question? Please share!